#mer-meeting: Mer release management/planning 10/1/2012

Meeting started by Stskeeps at 12:02:42 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. kickstarter templates for vendors to derive from (task) (Stskeeps, 12:05:18)
    2. http://meego.gitorious.org/meego-developer-tools/kickstarter/blobs/master/configurations.yaml (Stskeeps, 12:06:24)
    3. Mer IMG setup (task) (Stskeeps, 12:06:39)
    4. Use https://bugs.merproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88 for IMG setup (lbt, 12:07:43)
    5. tar.gz releases of core per release (Stskeeps, 12:13:34)
    6. rootfs builds in integration testing/gerrit changes (Stskeeps, 12:14:28)
    7. build logs in release (already a bug for this) (Stskeeps, 12:15:58)
    8. SB2-OBS integration - within two weeks, we'll likely be switching to be using SB2-OBS for cross compilation (Stskeeps, 12:18:51)
    9. requires OBS package builds working, ScriptRipper has done git trees for mer OBS integration as wel (Stskeeps, 12:19:16)
    10. we need Mer package signing (lbt, 12:19:26)
    11. requires community OBS to support this as well (Stskeeps, 12:19:27)
    12. http://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/SB2 (Stskeeps, 12:20:34)
    13. Mer Handbook: Make your own Mer image with 'mic' (Stskeeps, 12:23:28)
    14. http://pastie.org/3159898 ? (Sage, 12:23:49)
    15. get rid of dependancy on meego.com repositories for bootstrapping/tools (Stskeeps, 12:24:12)
    16. MINT is (now) Mer Intergration Tools (lbt, 12:24:15)
    17. Establish plan for Mer:Tools (seperate from Core) (Stskeeps, 12:28:37)
    18. Mer a host target - mer tools on mer, or do we build for debian/opensuse too? (Stskeeps, 12:28:54)
    19. Perhaps osc etc in "platform SDK"? (Stskeeps, 12:31:47)
    20. Note BR for Tools is not enough to warrant inclusion in Core (lbt, 12:33:00)
    21. need a Mer build/versioning policy/guide (lbt, 12:34:08)
    22. (migrate Packaging/Guidelines to mer wiki?) (Stskeeps, 12:34:23)
    23. https://bugs.merproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91 (lbt, 12:35:03)
    24. 'make' approach for entire Mer core (Stskeeps, 12:53:55)
    25. "osc mv" (Stskeeps, 12:54:56)
    26. osc mv to support preservation of CI and B (lbt, 12:55:19)
    27. osc remote link to support preservation of CI and B (lbt, 12:55:36)
    28. simplify development process by allowing sortable vcs revision based version ( like sha1sum for git cf. https://bugs.merproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91) (phaeron, 13:00:04)

  2. Versioning discussion (Stskeeps, 13:18:21)
    1. Requirement: we want to relate a built RPM package to a certain change (commit) in Mer (Stskeeps, 13:18:33)
    2. Requirement: we want to make it possible for a vendor to maintain branched change in Mer and still relate back to a certain change in Mer, and in vendor system (Stskeeps, 13:18:43)
    3. Requirement: no 2 changelog entries have the same version identifier (lbt, 13:32:52)
    4. http://www.mail-archive.com/meego-packaging@meego.com/msg00415.html (lbt, 13:52:15)
    5. http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=polkit.git;a=tree (Sage, 14:05:55)
    6. Mer will move to using Release: values which come from .changes file (lbt, 14:45:22)
    7. AGREED: merX.nemoY and grabbing it automatically from .changes with RPM scripts, eventually dist.sh in rpm configs %{dist} (Stskeeps, 14:45:52)


Meeting ended at 14:46:51 UTC (full logs).

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  2. Stskeeps (225)
  3. Sage (90)
  4. phaeron (64)
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